Falmer, Sussex

Historical Description

Falmer, a parish in Sussex, with a station on the L.B. & S.C.E., 54 miles from London, and 3½ NE of Brighton. It has a post and money order office under Lewes; telegraph office, Lewes. Acreage, 4393; population, 543. Stanmer Park, the seat of the Earl of Chichester, is adjacent. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Stanmer, in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £347 with residence. Patron, alternately the Archbishop of Canterbury and Earl Chichester. The church was rebuilt in 1817.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Falmer from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Falmer)

Maps

Online maps of Falmer are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Sussex newspapers online:

• Mid Sussex Times
• Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal
• Sussex Agricultural Express
• Hastings and St Leonards Observer
• Sussex Advertiser
• Brighton Gazette
• Bexhill-on-Sea Observer